Product Description
Metabolism at a Glance is a complete review course of metabolism in health and disease and offers a unique approach to the study of this difficult discipline. Metabolism is a complicated subject involving complex molecules and interrelated pathways. These metabolic pathways are usually taught separately with the result that the student develops a detailed but compartmentalised approach to metabolism and frequently fails to see the overall picture and its physiological significance. Using the at a Glance format, the book takes the student through a complete course in intermediary metabolism in an integrated manner. The same chart is repeated throughout the book with the individual pathway under study highlighted. The book is an ideal text for introductory biochemistry courses and has established itself as an enormously popular book amongst lecturers and students alike. This third edition is fully updated and includes five new chapters to mirror those topics currently taught at undergraduate level: 1. Metabolic Channelling 2. Glucose homeostasis and Reye's Disease 3. Pentose phosphate pathway and the prodcution of NADPH 4. Tryptophan metabolism in health and disease 5. Tyrosine metabolism in health and disease

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)

Essential if you are a visual learner by James Min (Hawaii, USA)

5 Stars
April 11, 2009
This book is saving me as I take my medical biochemistry class now. This book maps many of the pathways on one page (the book has large pages) so you can see how different pathways are interconnected and where in the cell various processes occur. I learn things visually and like to see the big picture. So, learning different pathways and parts of pathways spread on several lecture notes don't help me much as this book does. This book is a major reason why I have a solid A in the class so far. I highly recommend it for metabolic or medical biochemistry classes.

Good resource!!! by J. Nuckols (TX USA)

4 Stars
January 11, 2009
Though I would not use this as my primary source of knowledge, it presents the material in a VERY supporting way and was great at clarifying/clearing up issues I had with other sources concerning metabolism. Bottom line: a worthwhile purchase for the price!

great view of the big picture by A. P. Crombie

5 Stars
January 05, 2007
Metabolism at a Glance helped me in an advanced metabolism class: it shows all the inter-relationships between the different metabolic pathways, and overall is very complete. I purchased it on recommendation by one of my professors. I imagine that this book will be helpful to anyone in fields such as nutrition, exercise physiology, biochemistry, and at the very least is a good companion to any graduate level biochemistry/physiology textbook or class. The text can be small despite the oversized nature of the book, but then again, there's not much that can be done to resolve that given the number of enzymes, substrates, etc. involved in these pathways. I highly recommend this book.

Is this good one to study biochemical pathway?

3 Stars
October 11, 2000
Actually, to memorize whole pathways of metabolisms is time-consuming work and easily worn out. So sometimes we think something good material connected the entire pathways should be needed. First of all, this book is hard to carry in your bag because this is over-sized shape, although the weight is light. Something to be desired is horrible pathways should be more inter-connected each other. Regulations on each pathway should be more added.

Excellent, Concise, and Thorough!

5 Stars
February 20, 1999
This large format book reveiws basic metabolism in an easy to understand manner. Specific segments of the metabolic pathway are summarized within two pages. Each face-page gives an overview of the entire metabolic pathway, with an outline of the specific topic discussed within that section. Far easier to comprehend than the metabolic pathways as described in those well known Biochemistry tomes, where the entire metabolic pathway is spread over 100 or so pages!

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